The poaching penalty is $10 million for each school acquired from the Mountain West. With each new addition, there is an increase in that rate by about $1 million.

Filed Tuesday in the Northern District of California, the complaint calls the poaching penalty “anticompetitive and unlawful” and asks the court to declare it “invalid and unenforceable.” ...

In yet another antitrust lawsuit f a cing the college sports industry, the Pac-12 Conference this week sued the Mountain West ...

The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable "poaching penalty" that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding Boise State ...

Part of their recommitment could be credited to the reported $10 million "poaching fee" the MWC is ... 12 to pay for its first four members. The penalty is a reported $10 million base fine which ...

"There is no legitimate justification for the 'poaching penalty,'" the complaint reads. "In fact, the MWC already seeks to impose tens of millions of dollars in 'exit fees' on MWC schools that ...

The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding Boise State ...